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Saturday, December 15, 2007

ReadingGeraldine Brook's The Year of Wonders (she's my new hero)Sally Vickers' Miss Garnet's Angel (she's not)Next up is A C Grayling's Enlightenment tome, Toward the Light. I'm becoming more of an unreconstructed Enlightenment product the older I get and the madder the world becomes.

Friday, December 14, 2007

I recently read a review of the new film which described Atonement as based on “Ian McEwan’s romantic epic”.I can’t think of anything less like a romantic epic.Well, actually I can (Chesil Beach, for one), but that’s beside the point.That’s not even a PR person resorting to that cliché: it was a film critic. Shoddy. Makes me wonder about interesting ways to apply some of those other standard film/book cover blurbs…Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White’s story of forbidden lovePossum Magic, a sweeping family sagaSilence of the Lambs is a sensitive and insightful portrait War and Peace, a fearless expose of one man’s driving ambitionThen of course there’s that hard-hitting documentary, laugh out loud, unputdownable, wickedly funny, classic, five-tissue, pageturner – Hansard.

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Kelly Gardiner's latest book is Goddess, a novel based on the remarkable life of Julie d'Aubigny (Mademoiselle de Maupin). Her previous books include the young adult novels 'The Sultan's Eyes' and 'Act of Faith' (HarperCollins). Her children's books include 'Billabong Bill's Bushfire Christmas' (Random House) and the ‘Swashbuckler!’ trilogy (HarperCollins): 'Ocean Without End', 'The Pirate's Revenge' and 'The Silver Swan'. Kelly is a professional writer and editor with many years experience in print and on the web, and teaches writing and digital media. She lives in Melbourne, Australia. (This is my personal profile, and my opinions are not necessarily those of my publishers, university or employer.)